MORE THAN 10 YEARS in the making, the new Davenport Road crossing of the Norfolk-Southern Railway is part of the new “Quiet Zone” for railroad whistles in Duluth. However, occasionally a rail engineer might set down on his horn in Duluth, not realizing the city has established a “Quiet Zone.” No horns in the middle of the night makes it easier for many to sleep who live near the railroad. The city had first to create this new Davenport Road rail crossing, and change the Brock Road crossing with four quad gates instead of two quad gates so that drivers could not drive around the gate. (The Georgia Highway 120 crossing, as at Davenport Road, had a median to stop cars from trying to outrun an oncoming train. The crossing contract with the railroad was for $1.5 million, while the Davenport Road construction cost was $2.8 million. The federal railroad website reports that previously there are 12 rail crossing “Quiet Zones” in Georgia, making the Duluth zone the 13th in the state of Georgia.)
TODAY’S FOCUS: County buys 26 more acres at Gwinnett Place
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Who signed the U.S. Constitution from Georgia?
SPOTLIGHT: NDIMaxim Real Estate LLC
FEEDBACK: Rebuts hypocrisy theory about AR-15 rifles
UPCOMING: Lilburn’s first leadership class is already full
NOTABLE: For a fee, you can renew driver’s license at a kiosk
RECOMMENDED: The Storm Before the Calm, by George Friedman
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Second UGA president focused on scientific equipment
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately building is today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Norcross library hosts citizenship classes Sept. 21
County buys 26 more acres at Gwinnett Place
By Brian Brodrick
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | The Gwinnett County commissioners this week approved the Urban Redevelopment Agency of Gwinnett County’s purchase of the Macy’s sites at Gwinnett Place Mall, totaling 23 acres, for $16.5 million. The board also approved the issuance of bonds to fund the purchase through its Urban Redevelopment Agency. This is the next step in the redevelopment of the mall area.
The Urban Redevelopment Agency of Gwinnett County will acquire 293,059 square feet of retail buildings on 23 acres of the Gwinnett Place Mall site, including the Macy’s department store and Macy’s furniture store, which will be leased back to Macy’s for store operations to continue through early 2025. In 2021, the Urban Redevelopment Agency of Gwinnett County initially purchased a 39-acre portion of the Gwinnett Place Mall site, and with this acquisition, will own 76 acres.
The county has conducted two extensive public input studies – the Equitable Redevelopment Plan and the Gwinnett Place Mall Site Revitalization Strategy – to identify and prioritize the community’s needs for the redevelopment of the mall site and surrounding area.
The Equitable Redevelopment Plan was informed by eight months of community engagement with direct input from more than 2,000 Gwinnett residents. It identified five key areas for preservation and growth in the county – housing, small businesses, cultural activity center, neighborhood services and jobs.
The Gwinnett Place Mall Site Revitalization Strategy was a combined effort between Gwinnett County, the Gwinnett Place CID and the Atlanta Regional Commission. An in-depth market analysis and surveys of 6,000 community members led to a transformational concept called the Global Villages, which envisions housing, an international community cultural center, office space and retail oriented around a central park.
The redevelopment of the Gwinnett Place Mall site is also in alignment with and furthers the goals and priorities of the County’s 2045 Unified Plan, which in part aim to foster inclusive and equitable economic growth within Gwinnett.
Gwinnett County Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson says: “The acquisition of the Macy’s site marks a pivotal step forward in the redevelopment of Gwinnett Place Mall, setting the stage for Gwinnett County to establish a national – and possibly international – model for equitable and impactful transformation. This redevelopment will be a catalyst for change, creating transformative opportunities that enhance property values, align with neighboring investments, and drive growth for a new generation of entrepreneurs, residents, and local businesses.”
Joe Allen, head of the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District, added: “The Gwinnett Place CID is excited about the announcement that the Urban Redevelopment Agency of Gwinnett County is acquiring the Macy’s department and furniture store properties at the former Gwinnett Place mall site. We are grateful for Gwinnett County’s leadership, determination, vision and commitment to transforming the Gwinnett Place Mall site and to the future of Gwinnett Central business district.”
In March 2024, Gwinnett County announced a partnership with international real estate services firm CBRE to advance and refine plans for the redevelopment process. The firm is working alongside the county to ensure the transformative project stays consistent with the county’s goals and vision.
Lee Ann Korst, senior vice president with CBRE’s Public Institutions and Education Solutions practice, says: “The county has done a masterful job thinking about the future of Gwinnett residents in its planning for the redevelopment. They are forward thinking about using the underutilized site as a catalyst and to the benefit of the surrounding community and taxpayers.”
The $16.5 million purchase is expected to close in November. By attracting top developers and fostering public-private partnerships, the Gwinnett Place Mall project will continue a focus on redevelopment of urban sites into economic hubs in the community. The County anticipates opening its search for a development partner by the first quarter of 2025.
Who signed the U.S. Constitution from Georgia?
Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Image via Wikipedia.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 20, 2024 | If you live in Gwinnett County, you may know why the county is named for Button Gwinnett. He is famous for two reasons. First, the county was named for him as one of the three signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia. Second, nearby counties got their names from the other two signers, George Walton and Lyman Hall.
Button also served in Georgia’s colonial legislature, and as president of Georgia’s Revolutionary Council of Safety, being essentially the second provisional governor of Georgia.
Old Button is also famous for his signature being rare. The last known signature sold at auction fetched nearly $700,000 over a decade ago at Sotheby’s. Some say it could be worth over $1 million today. There are only 33 known verified signatures of his.
Now may we ask: who from Georgia signed the U.S. Constitution when it was adopted in 1787?
Their names are not ones quite as familiar as Button’s.
Georgia sent six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Only four went. And only two—Abraham Baldwin and William Few—signed the final document. The other two attending were William Houston and William Leigh Pierce, both of whom have counties named for them.
The states were asked to send delegates to sign the document they had created to replace the Articles of Confederation, which were awkward in guiding the early efforts of our county. Of the 55 people who attended the Convention, only 39 signed on the document.
Some left as the convention progressed, whereas others refused to sign in protest. Since Rhode Island refused to send a delegate, no representative from Rhode Island signed the document. In addition, the convention’s secretary, William Jackson, also signed the document, not as a delegate, but in attestation of the document’s signing.
The Constitution adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was later ratified by special conventions in each of the then-existing 13 American states. Today, the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America.
And here is something you may not also know: it’s deliberately hard to easily understand the Constitution, since those writing it purposefully made the language ambiguous.
The Constitution was conceived by Gouveneur Morris of Pennsylvania, and another from Pennsylvania, the well-known Benjamin Franklin, presented it to the convention. Franklin was the oldest, at age 81, to sign the document.
Why intentionally ambiguous? It was politics, hopes of winning the votes of dissenting delegates. Advocates for the new frame of government, realizing the impending difficulty of obtaining the consent of the states needed for it to become operational, were anxious to obtain the unanimous support of the delegations from each state. It was feared that many of the delegates would refuse to give their individual assent to the Constitution. Therefore, in order that the action of the Convention would appear to be unanimous, the formula, with the phrase, “Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present”… was devised.
The document outlines how the government is to be run, notes its three branches and how they are to function. While it lays all this out in black-and-white, today people interpret its original intent in many different ways. We see this in many U.S. Supreme Court interpretations.
And how about Abraham Baldwin? His big claim to fame is that he founded the University of Georgia.
And William Few? A lawyer, he served four years as a U.S. senator, then state judge, and moved to New York to join Manhattan Bank, and later was president of City Bank.
Bet you didn’t know that City Bank connection!
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Rebuts hypocrisy theory about AR-15 rifles
Editor, the Forum:
David Simmons tried to highlight hypocrisy displayed by Democrats about AR-15 semi-automatic rifles. I think he missed the mark.
He said progressive, liberal Democrats were silent about the assassination attempt on former president, Donald Trump. Was he referring to the so-called extreme-left Democrats known as “progressives” or to all Democrats? Many Democrats spoke out about that shooting and the weapon used, but perhaps few in any of the “progressives” did so.
Referring to the school shooting in nearby Barrow County, he said a kid sneaked an AR-15 into his high school and “shot the place up.” Not exactly. The 14-year old killed four people, including two classmates and two teachers, and wounded nine others. No wonder some Georgia Democrats are demanding meaningful gun control measures.
The real issues here include 1) responsibility of parents to keep semi-automatic (and other) weapons out of their children’s hands, as I expect the kid’s father wishes he had done after getting arrested for not doing so; 2) responsibility of voters, members of Congress, and our recent presidents to get semi-automatic weapons, extended bullet magazines, and bump stocks off the market and out of hands of people, except for active military in their official roles.
From 1994 until 2004 Congress and the presidents in office kept business gun interests from selling AR-15 and AK-47 style weapons. The 2025 Congress and president could do that and more if they were willing to put responsibility on a par with gun rights and take the political consequences. I firmly believe a majority of Americans would support such an effort.
– Mike Wood, Peachtree Corners
Maintains that Trump belies Project 2025
Editor, the Forum:
The first thing to realize is that the Trump election team has never said Project 2025 is a blueprint for America after the election. The Heritage team put a lot of ideas together for future Republicans to look at.
School choice is working very well in several areas of the country. The biggest advantage goes to poor kids trapped in a bad school. The other advantage is competition. Why do we support a system that is failing our kids? Some American schools are failing, compared to many countries.
Yet we spend more than other countries to achieve failure. The Republicans want to teach a true and accurate history of America. There is both good and bad in our past. If we do not teach the truth, we will make the same mistakes again. I do not have time to go at this article subject by subject. At no time has Trump advanced 2025 as his blueprint to run our country. Just because you say a lie over and over doesn’t make it true.
– Sammy Baker, Lawrenceville
Dear Sammy: glad you realize that saying lies doesn’t make them true. Donald Trump may disavow Project 2025, but his minions conceived and wrote the plan.-eeb
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Lilburn’s first leadership class is already full
Leadership Lilburn is to be the city’s signature program for residents and business owners who are ready to make a meaningful contribution to the area’s growth and success. Its mission is to educate, equip, and engage local leaders and inspire civic engagement, building the next generation of leaders.
The program will give participants a first-hand look at city operations, from budgeting and finance to code enforcement, policing, public works and governance in general. Mayor Johnny Crist says he hopes that “Leadership Lilburn will further engage residents and business owners in our local government. This will also build relationships between city staff and future city leaders.”
He adds: “Engagement leads to better understanding and even more transparency.” The program is free and open to any city residents or business owners over the age of 18. The comprehensive program will consist of seven weekly sessions that last an hour and a half on consecutive Thursdays. The classes will begin September 30 and conclude November 11. Join the group for fireside chats with local leaders and learn how involvement can transform the Lilburn community.
Enrollment is limited to 15 students, with a priority given to individuals living in the city limits and/or business owners who operate businesses within the city limits. This year’s Academy is full but the city anticipates holding other sessions.
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For a fee, you can renew driver’s license on a kiosk
A growing collaboration between the Gwinnett County Tax Commissioner’s Office and Intellectual Technology Inc., a motor vehicle kiosk provider in North America based in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) is allowing Gwinnett County to increase services to its motor vehicle customers.
ITI recently equipped tag renewal kiosks in two Kroger stores in Gwinnett County, one in Norcross and one in Suwanee, with hardware from the DDS. The hardware provides an upgrade to the machines that allows customers to renew their Georgia driver’s license or ID card on a second screen. The Kroger at 6050 Singleton Road in Norcross and the Kroger at 2121 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road are up and running with the hardware. The motor vehicle kiosk at Kroger’s Duluth location at 3093 Steve Reynolds Blvd was part of ITI’s pilot program last year.
Amity Caserta, account manager for ITI, said the new technology uses facial comparison checks. A customer’s face is scanned at the kiosk and compared to the photo on record at the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles. Caserta said the security feature protects the customer and combats fraud. The transaction takes approximately four to five minutes. DDS charges a $27 digital fee to renew, plus a $3.95 service fee and a 2.25% credit card fee. The machine will print a temporary paper driver’s license. Customers will receive the driver’s license card in the mail.
The new feature on the machines comes on the heels of Gwinnett County Tax Commissioner Denise R. Mitchell partnering with Publix to bring tag renewal kiosks to their stores in Gwinnett County.
Over the summer, ITI installed a tag renewal kiosk in Publix’s Peachtree Corners location at 3200 Holcomb Bridge Road. The Publix in Snellville at 3550 Centerville Highway was the first of the company’s stores to house the machines in Gwinnett County, making it the first Publix in the metro Atlanta area to have a tag renewal kiosk.
Mitchell says: “We value our long-standing partnership with Kroger stores. It is fitting that they are the first to house the multiservice kiosks in the county. I am also extremely pleased that we are the first county in metro Atlanta to partner with Publix in the interest of increasing access to services for our customers.” Mitchell said plans are in place to equip all motor vehicle kiosks in the county with dual functionality.
Lilburn Woman’s Club helps with school meals
From left are Lucy Torp of Lilburn Elementary School and club members Barbara Brooks, Karen Snavely, Kathy Mattox, Kenny Venegas and Jenny Nall.
The Lilburn Woman’s Club has recognized that families experience additional costs in August and September when children return to school. Fees, clothing, supplies, and school meals add stress to many families.
After checking with the Parent Liaison at Lilburn Elementary School, Lucy Torp, the club established a Parent Pantry that supports needy students with food supplies for weekend meals. The club also found that 93 students had outstanding charges for student meals this year that had reached $747.60. Once a student has reached three charges, they do not receive the regular lunch.
Realizing that some students no longer had lunch, the Lilburn Woman’s Members donated 56 pounds of food to the Lilburn Elementary School pantry, along with a check for $1,000 to the Care Team to cover charges and additional needs focused on reducing food insecurity.
The Woman’s Club is collecting food for the Lilburn Co-op and urge the community to consider making a donation to the Co-op this September.
The Club is a member of the General Federation of Women’s Club, which has over 60,000 members, dedicated to actively improving the lives of others.
The Storm Before the Calm, by George Friedman
From Randy Brunson, Suwanee: In this book George Friedman, geopolitical forecaster and author of The Next 100 Years, examines the cycles through which the United States has developed and matured. In Friedman’s opinion, American history must be viewed in cycles. In particular, he speaks of the 80-year institutional cycle and the 50-year ‘socio-economic’ cycle. This book, published in early 2020, suggests that both cycles are converging in the 2020’s, potentially causing upheaval and conflict. But at the same time, moving through these cycles will lead to increased strength, stability, and power in the world.
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Second UGA president focused on scientific equipment
The history of physics in Georgia uniquely portrays the regional, national, and international impact that the state’s colleges and universities continue to make in research, development, and education. Josiah Meigs, the second president of the University of Georgia, implemented the state’s first physics curriculum in 1801, using sophisticated equipment manufactured at the time only in Europe.
Interest in physics began early at the University of Georgia in Athens. In 1800 Abraham Baldwin, the university’s first president, was given $1,000 for the purchase of books and equipment. The university attached great significance to “natural philosophy” (used in a broad sense, including the physical sciences) and adopted it into the original curriculum.
The university’s second president, Josiah Meigs, vigorously dedicated himself to developing the natural philosophy program. Meigs, born in Middletown, Conn., he graduated from Yale in 1778. After practicing law, he was hired at Yale as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in 1794. However, because the Federalist majority of the faculty disapproved of his friendship with Thomas Jefferson, Meigs left that university in 1800.
It was precisely this mixture of great scholastic ability, coupled with a relative lack of political dexterity, that distinguished Meigs’s tenure as president of the University of Georgia. During most of his service he was the only professor of natural philosophy and taught all of its subjects, while distinguishing himself with considerable research in meteorology and astronomy. Conflicts with members of the board of trustees, some of whom disdained Meigs’s Jeffersonian outlook and secular approach to education, eventually forced Meigs to resign from the presidency in 1810, but he stayed on as a professor for another year.
Thanks to Meigs, few, if any, institutions across the country were as well equipped as the University of Georgia. Almost all experimental equipment purchases were made in Europe, and the highlights of the trustees’ annual meetings include an inspection of the many apparatuses collected by the university.
In 1887 the Department of Natural Philosophy became the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The research aim and structure of the department was largely conceived and implemented by Ellis Dixon, department head from 1937 to 1967, who emphasized particularly the central role of basic research. During his tenure, the department launched a modern and comprehensive research department, with a strong emphasis on nuclear physics, molecular spectroscopy, astronomy, and astrophysics, by purchasing a two-million-volt Van de Graaff accelerator and a 24-inch reflecting telescope in 1960-61.
Today, the strength of basic research shows itself in the numerous interdisciplinary research centers and research groups within the department. Such research centers include the Center for Simulational Physics, the National Ultraviolet Monitoring Center (NUVMC), and the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NanoSEC). The Simulational Physics Center engages in cutting-edge computational physical research, simulating phenomena from the nuclear to the galactic. NanoSEC, with faculty from nine departments and four colleges, actively incorporates basic and applied research in developing technology at atomic and molecular scales.
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Stately building is today’s Mystery Photo
Today’s Mystery Photo is a stately Georgian building, obviously with sumptuous grounds and imposing gates. Try to determine this building’s location and function. Send your thoughts to ebrack2@gmail.com and tell us which city you live in.
The previous Mystery Photo was snapped into identification by several people quickly. George Graf of Palmyra, Va. came in first, telling it is “ “The Shape of Time and Water” sculpture by Phil Proctorm located in Rogers Bridge Park in Duluth. The sculpture is composed of salvaged bridge components of 120 year old steel from the historic Rogers Bridge and is meant to represent the water as it embraces the bridge column.”
Kimberly Kelkenberg, Duluth, noted that the photo is of the monument at Rogers Bridge Park in Duluth is made from pieces of the old bridge. Kelly would have been so very proud of the park. Wish he was here to enjoy it.”
Others recognizing the monument were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Stew Ogilvie, now of Rehobeth, Ala.; Dick LoPresti, Berkeley Lake; Kay Montgomery, Duluth; Annette Mcintosh, Duluth; Donna Green, Augusta; and Alan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.
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Norcross library hosts citizenship classes Sept. 21
Citizenship Clinic is scheduled for the Norcross Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on September 21 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Invest in your future by applying for United States Citizenship. Pre-registration is required to attend the workshop.
Reading is FUNdamental will take place at the Duluth Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Join Meridith Rose each month to learn about the fundamentals of reading and ways to build your child’s speech, language, and emergent literacy skills while reading together. Children are encouraged to attend. The program will be September 21 at 11 a.m.
Lake Lanier Islands 36th annual Shore Sweep will be Saturday, September 21 from 8 a. m. until 1 p.m. Be a part of cleaning up the lake for the benefit of Lake Lanier and all those who enjoy it. If you have never helped with Shore Sweep, we promise you will be surprised by how fun picking up trash can be! This event, hosted by the Lake Lanier Association is the largest volunteer clean-up in Georgia! Boats or all sizes and types are needed. To register, go to Lanier.org/Shore-Sweep/
JapanFest celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with the weekend festival taking place on September 21–22 at the Gas South Convention Center. Immerse yourself in Japanese culture through food, games, shopping, live performances and hands-on activities for the whole family. Tickets are available online or can be purchased at the door.
Norcross Cemetery Tour will be Sunday, September 22 at 2 p.m., led by Historian Gene Ramsey. There is no charge for the tour, which will last 60-90 minutes. Meet at the Cemetery, which is on the east side of Buford Highway at its intersection with Holcomb Bridge Road.
Senior Falls Prevention Awareness Day will be at the Lawrenceville Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on September 22 at 2 p.m. Falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries in older Americans. However, falls are not an inevitable part of aging. Join us to learn about resources for seniors and tips to prevent falls.
Attend the Braselton Brew Fest on Sunday, September 22 from 2:30 until 5 p.m. Brewmasters will transform the Braselton Town Green into a hoppin’ beer garden for the inaugural Braselton Brew Fest! Ticket holders will enjoy unlimited samples of craft beer, live music and lawn games.
State of the City of Norcross will be Thursday, September 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 6050 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. Mayor Craig Newton will deliver the address, sharing updates of city developments and outline key initiatives for the coming year.
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Men’s civic breakfast at Christ Episcopal Church will be Saturday, September 28 at 8 a.m. Speaker will be the Rt. Rev. Robert C. Wright, the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. Members of the community are welcomed.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in Lilburn and enjoy the experience of the magic of traditional Mexican Folk Dances. The Alma Mexicana Dance performance will take place at 11 a.m. September 28 at the Lilburn Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library.
Celebrate history in downtown Braselton on Saturday, September 28, from 10 a.m. until noon in the lobby of 1904 at 9924 Davis Street. Join the group as it unveils a special display highlighting the 1930 incredible journey of Braselton High to the national basketball tournament.
Art program: come on Friday, October 4 from 5:30 until 8:30 to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth for a special photographic exhibit. Be at the grand opening of Beebe and Clegg: Their Enduring Photographic Legacy from the Center for Photography and Railroad Art. The museum is located at 3595 Buford Highway in Duluth. Honor the art of giving with the gift of art.
Georgia Race for Autism will be on October 5 at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, located at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. Check in begins at 7 a.m. There will be a certified 5K race, a 1 Mile Fun Run, a 100-yard Dash, and a Tot Trot. To register, go to https://runsignup.com/Race/Register/?raceId=12939. Stay for the free Fall Festival, kicking off at 8 a.m., which lasts until noon. Enjoy a petting zoo, face painting, pony rides, inflatables, balloon art, a sensory fun area, a trackless train, music, entertainment, and a silent auction.
Bananarama III Here We Go Again is returning to the Lionheart Theatre in downtown Norcross. Show times are October 4 and 5 at 7:30 p.m. This is Project Chimps’ annual comedy-variety-drag show hosted by Jolene Goodall with featured performances by Berlinda Wall! It is for ages 16+ and not suitable for all audiences.
Norcross Art Splash Festival is back on October 5–6 in downtown Norcross. View the works of 80 artists from across the country who will show off their talents with folk art, ceramics, paintings, photography, mixed media, fiber art, metalwork, and jewelry. Kids can enjoy the interactive Kidz Zone, with face painting, sand art and inflatable rides. Festival food and drinks will be in abundance to enjoy throughout the weekend.
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